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[The Simpleton]

This is a rather silly but also urgent doubt. I need to purchase a particular domain using myCENTs and I need to get it soon because I am aware that another member at the trap17 forums is also trying to get it. The problem is that I purchased another domain just today so my account balance has come down to $2.68, so it will take at least 20 days for me to reach the required amount to pay for my domain (my target has a .in TLD)

My doubt is that is it possible to purchase the domain with hosting right now? I know the invoice will show negative balance, but I can guarantee that I will get the required amount within 20 days, because I am earning $1 per day on an average with myCENTs, so I will be paying $1 everyday in the invoice, reducing the negative balance. I hope I am getting my point through. Could someone kindly tell me if this is possible? I really need to get that domain very soon!

[harrison858]

kasperooney, on Jul 10 2009, 02:25 PM, said:

This is a rather silly but also urgent doubt. I need to purchase a particular domain using myCENTs and I need to get it soon because I am aware that another member at the trap17 forums is also trying to get it. The problem is that I purchased another domain just today so my account balance has come down to $2.68, so it will take at least 20 days for me to reach the required amount to pay for my domain (my target has a .in TLD)

My doubt is that is it possible to purchase the domain with hosting right now? I know the invoice will show negative balance, but I can guarantee that I will get the required amount within 20 days, because I am earning $1 per day on an average with myCENTs, so I will be paying $1 everyday in the invoice, reducing the negative balance. I hope I am getting my point through. Could someone kindly tell me if this is possible? I really need to get that domain very soon!

Well, I've never paid with a negative balance before, but I'm sure after a certain number of days that you do not complete paying the invoice, the order is cancelled and you get your myCENTS back.

But that's only happened to me with hosting. I dont know about domains, though.

[rpgsearcherz]

I'm pretty sure you can't buy a domain without having the funds available. That would be like going to the store and asking if you can have X item without any money (not credit card, just "trust me, I'll bring back the cash")

I could be wrong on that, but especially regarding domains I doubt it's possible. With domains Trap would have to pay to do the registration, so if you were to back out they would be left with a registered domain with no use for it.

Just make a deposit, .

[anwiii]

HECK NO! you need to be posting like everyone else. not asking favors just for you. if you are so worried about a omain name, borrow $10 and save your credits for the hosting. you already have enough actually....

i also have a problem when two people want the same domain. one person had the original thought and made the mistake of telling someone else just so someone else can steal it. this whole thread seems fishy to me

kasperooney, on Jul 10 2009, 01:25 PM, said:

This is a rather silly but also urgent doubt. I need to purchase a particular domain using myCENTs and I need to get it soon because I am aware that another member at the trap17 forums is also trying to get it. The problem is that I purchased another domain just today so my account balance has come down to $2.68, so it will take at least 20 days for me to reach the required amount to pay for my domain (my target has a .in TLD)

My doubt is that is it possible to purchase the domain with hosting right now? I know the invoice will show negative balance, but I can guarantee that I will get the required amount within 20 days, because I am earning $1 per day on an average with myCENTs, so I will be paying $1 everyday in the invoice, reducing the negative balance. I hope I am getting my point through. Could someone kindly tell me if this is possible? I really need to get that domain very soon!

[The Simpleton]

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this whole thread seems fishy to me

well i was only asking a doubt im not running away anywhere after registering

anyway, thanks for the replies guys. If it had been a .com TLD then I could have managed to get the $10 from somewhere else but my TLD is gonna cost me $19 which no one is gonna lend me immediately. So I guess I just have to keep my fingers crossed and hope that my competitor's fingers are a little uncrossed I just have another doubt; I hope it gets cleared in this thread itself.....

I'm using the Logic hosting plan ($1.95 per month). I'm not very sure about it, but does the package allow to host 2 domains ? If yes, that would save me some money with hosting coz I already have 2 domains with trap and m now competing to get another. So if they all can be hosted with the same plan that would save a lot of money. I think it's not possible with the Logic plan....any other plan perhaps? Please answer this doubt too before someone else thinks this is fishy or crawly or something else!

[Saint_Michael]

Your allowed to have up to 5 add on domains and 5 parked domains in your account if you have the default logic plan, of course you can add more to your account if you wish.

[akashi]

As harrison858 said, you can buy the domain first and pay after you get your mycent. At least this will prevent others from buying the same domain from xisto. (I think )

[The Simpleton]

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Your allowed to have up to 5 add on domains and 5 parked domains in your account if you have the default logic plan, of course you can add more to your account if you wish.

five is more than enough thanks for clearing up my doubt that should save me a lot on hosting. Now I just need to collect $20 as soon as possible while taking care not to spam here...wow that's a challenge! but i think i can manage it fine. i just hope and hope again that my competitor doesn't reach there before me. we're friends actually but in matters like these best friends become best enemies!

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As harrison858 said, you can buy the domain first and pay after you get your mycent. At least this will prevent others from buying the same domain from xisto. (I think wink.gif )

to tell the truth, if i had the capacity of paying at least $10 online by myself, I wouldn't be in these forums and all my friends are in the same situation as i am, so no help from them either!

[akashi]

I mean, you can place an order to xisto first. Xisto will wait untill your balance is enough to pay your order. By doing these, others (your friends who also here) won't be able to buy the domain because the domain is already ordered

kasperooney, on Jul 11 2009, 01:47 PM, said:

to tell the truth, if i had the capacity of paying at least $10 online by myself, I wouldn't be in these forums <img src="style_emoticons/default/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> and all my friends are in the same situation as i am, so no help from them either!<br /><br /><br />

[The Simpleton]

can we do that? that would be like reserving a domain, isn't it? well if that works it would be wonderful. I'll send a support ticket right away and report back here what happens. Thanks for the suggestions all of you

[akashi]

I don't know wether this will work or not, but at least you can try this way. But the order will be canceled if you don't pay for several days (let say, about 1-2 weeks maybe,.. ask Xisto about this).

And don't forget to post here, whether this trick works or not Hope you can buy your domain pal

kasperooney, on Jul 11 2009, 07:11 PM, said:

can we do that? that would be like reserving a domain, isn't it? well if that works it would be wonderful. I'll send a support ticket right away and report back here what happens. Thanks for the suggestions all of you

[The Simpleton]

Well I got a surprising answer from the support team and it's in my favour - I'll give you more details tomorrow, after registering my domain! Yes, that's right; the reply has enabled me to register my .in domain tomorrow itself! I'm not giving more details here lest my competitor-friend takes benefit of it as well but I'm really happy that I'm going to win the race at last (unless my friend posts all night and reaches there first, which is very unlikely!)

I'm putting it as an add-on domain so it's a big saving for me. Oh I'm loving trap17 more and more with each passing day - it's been so helpful for me

[akashi]

Hope you can share with us your trick N, it's not only you who love trap17, we do also

kasperooney, on Jul 11 2009, 11:12 PM, said:

Well I got a surprising answer from the support team and it's in my favour - I'll give you more details tomorrow, after registering my domain! Yes, that's right; the reply has enabled me to register my .in domain tomorrow itself! I'm not giving more details here lest my competitor-friend takes benefit of it as well but I'm really happy that I'm going to win the race at last (unless my friend posts all night and reaches there first, which is very unlikely!)

I'm putting it as an add-on domain so it's a big saving for me. Oh I'm loving trap17 more and more with each passing day - it's been so helpful for me

[The Simpleton]

It's not a trick actually, it's pretty straightforward and you can do it too, although it's for a limited time only and you need to contact the support team immediately after you do it, or you'll temporarily lost a lot of myCENTs (they'll restore it of course!) Anyway, I'm looking forward to tomorrow coming sooooooooooooon!

[Saint_Michael]

akashi, on Jul 10 2009, 11:51 PM, said:

As harrison858 said, you can buy the domain first and pay after you get your mycent. At least this will prevent others from buying the same domain from xisto. (I think )

Nope, you be paying for the domain the moment you place order and then its approved by the admin.

kasperooney, on Jul 11 2009, 12:47 AM, said:

five is more than enough thanks for clearing up my doubt that should save me a lot on hosting. Now I just need to collect $20 as soon as possible while taking care not to spam here...wow that's a challenge! but i think i can manage it fine. i just hope and hope again that my competitor doesn't reach there before me. we're friends actually but in matters like these best friends become best enemies! .

to tell the truth, if i had the capacity of paying at least $10 online by myself, I wouldn't be in these forums and all my friends are in the same situation as i am, so no help from them either!

Well the best way to post is nice long quality posts, that way you can earn more through one post instead not earning much through several posts. Well instead of trying to compete with each other, join forces as you can do a lot more with a website with a group of people then going solo on a web project.

akashi, on Jul 11 2009, 01:09 AM, said:

I mean, you can place an order to xisto first. Xisto will wait untill your balance is enough to pay your order. By doing these, others (your friends who also here) won't be able to buy the domain because the domain is already ordered

Like I mentioned earlier, you be making your first payment the moment you place your order, besides many many people frown on others reserving domains and not using them whatsoever.

kasperooney, on Jul 11 2009, 06:11 AM, said:

can we do that? that would be like reserving a domain, isn't it? well if that works it would be wonderful. I'll send a support ticket right away and report back here what happens. Thanks for the suggestions all of you

Refer to my above statement.

kasperooney, on Jul 11 2009, 10:12 AM, said:

Well I got a surprising answer from the support team and it's in my favour - I'll give you more details tomorrow, after registering my domain! Yes, that's right; the reply has enabled me to register my .in domain tomorrow itself! I'm not giving more details here lest my competitor-friend takes benefit of it as well but I'm really happy that I'm going to win the race at last (unless my friend posts all night and reaches there first, which is very unlikely!)

I'm putting it as an add-on domain so it's a big saving for me. Oh I'm loving trap17 more and more with each passing day - it's been so helpful for me

Surprise they actually let you do that because people frown on others reserving domains and then not using them later and making sure others can't use it as well.

[akashi]

Wew, that's long answe michael. So then, how did kasperooney buy his domain? i'm still curious with that.

@kasperooney : could you share with us

[anwiii]

al i can say is.... "?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?" anyway, it's probably just one of those new useless fad domains like come_on.in or something

for someone competing for the same domain though, there was sure a lot of public chatter about it.

Saint_Michael, on Jul 11 2009, 12:10 PM, said:

Surprise they actually let you do that because people frown on others reserving domains and then not using them later and making sure others can't use it as well.

[rpgsearcherz]

I'm also quite surprised they allowed you to get a domain without already having the funds available...

I guess if you were very close to having enough at the time you bought the domain it would be understandable, but if you were still far away (by close I mean within $2-3) they're very trusting, .

[The Simpleton]

wow I never really expected this many people to respond to this topic!

ok, first let me tell you I did nothing special for this. It's just that Trap17 is holding a special offer valid till 29 July. They're offering .in domains at $5.49 for the first year, and the usual $18.99 from the second year onwards. Well I'll be safe from the second year, I'm just happy that I was able to pay for the first year. The support team told me to contact them with the invoice number so that they could correct the amount from $18.99 to $5.49 and restore any extra balance that might have been deducted in the process. I did it and am just waiting for their response. I forgot to ask them whether there are any such offers for other TLDs as well. I guess I'll do it after all this is over.

Well, that's it - that's the 'trick' - nothing special about it!

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Well instead of trying to compete with each other, join forces as you can do a lot more with a website with a group of people then going solo on a web project.

We had that discussion too but we figured that it wouldn't work out in the long term because one of us might be giving up on the project, resulting in the loss of both! So we agreed to fight it out on our own

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al i can say is.... "?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?" anyway, it's probably just one of those new useless fad domains like come_on.in or something

well it's not a domain like that one, but all I can say that it's not entirely useless for me. I already have a website about computers, and now I plan to use this for a similar purpose - it's short (maybe not sweet) and easy to remember.

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for someone competing for the same domain though, there was sure a lot of public chatter about it.

well since I didn't mention the domain name anywhere I was pretty sure I was safe until the last minute! And I'm really surprised that so many people responded to my initial question. That's really sweet of you guys


NEW TWIST: this just happened as I was typing out this reply - I got an email from the support team saying that my domain is not available!! They asked me to check for another domain at xidomains.com and guess what? The domain still says "available" when I check it. What does this mean? I got till the invoice step only because the domain was available in the first place, isn't it? Then why did I get such an email? Please help me out here if you know of such a situation....

[anwiii]

i always liked going here to check domain availabilities ----> http://instantdomainsearch.com/

you might want to do a quick search elsewhere for the availability and do a whois search. if the domain is coming up available, then it may have something to do with the .in extention itself which i believe is india. shrug

kasperooney, on Jul 12 2009, 03:42 AM, said:

NEW TWIST: this just happened as I was typing out this reply - I got an email from the support team saying that my domain is not available!! They asked me to check for another domain at xidomains.com and guess what? The domain still says "available" when I check it. What does this mean? I got till the invoice step only because the domain was available in the first place, isn't it? Then why did I get such an email? Please help me out here if you know of such a situation....

[The Simpleton]

Hmm xisto domain search is saying that the domain name is available while godaddy is saying that it is an invalid one I don't really understand what is going on, but I think it does have something to do with the .in TLD itself. I'm now waiting for the support team to reply. They were quick to say that the domain is invalid, but they haven't given a solution yet. Well, can't really blame them , as it a sunday! Looks like both me and my friend are losing the competition, but at least I'm the one who almost got there!

[akashi]

It's too bad to hear that kasperooney. btw, this .in means a domain for a country India?

kasperooney, on Jul 12 2009, 07:42 PM, said:

Looks like both me and my friend are losing the competition, but at least I'm the one who almost got there!

[The Simpleton]

yes .in is the TLD for India, in the same way as .uk, .us, .jp are TLDs for the United Kingdom, the US and Japan respectively I don't know about the other countries' TLDs but .in domains are costlier than .com domains (they're double the price - $18.99 per year as compared to $9.99 per year). But they are convenient to use because they cater to a specific caudience and tells you which country the owner is from

[Alex Cicala]

I wouldn't know for sure, but I'm guessing that you wouldn't be able to continue using your website account, it will probably be disabled. Always make sure you have enough MyCents to pay for the months invoice.

[The Simpleton]

well the story's over guys....the reason due to which I wasn't able to book my domain is that there is a rule stating that all .in domains must have a minimum of three characters in them and the one I was trying to book had two. I was thinking quite a lot till then that why didn't someone book this one ages ago! But it turns out that I'm the fool at this end I wasn't aware of that rule. It's okay for .com domains to have only 1 character but I don't really know why they made this strange rule in the case of .in domains.

Anyway the deal's off; my balance has been restored and my account is healthy again But I must admit it was a great few days filled with excitement and what-not! And with all you guys looking interested too I wanted to write my victory story here but it turned out to be a flop show! All i got was a little bit of G.K. regarding domain registration rules and the answer to my initial question, Is it possible to pay with negative balance?' is that you can take the risk for a maximum of 24 hours, and after that your order may be canceled, along with your xisto account!

I'm not taking risks like that anymore. I'm waiting for a few days to pump up my balance and I'm off to buy my third .com domain. Rest assured that there won't be any stories like this one about that!!!! Goodbye my dream .in domain.........